Stalin’s Soviet Union

Socialism in One CountryGosplan- oversaw

the program of industrialization, setting production goals.

Electricity, power plants, iron, steel industry

Poor working conditions

Propaganda

Success of the Five Year PlansSoviet industrial production grew 400%

between 1928-1940.Migration of hundreds of thousands to

industrial cities.Human toll.

Collectivization High grain production, nothing to buy.Take over peasant farms into one collective

state-owned farm.

KulaksProsperous peasant farmers, Stalin blamed

for food shortages.Stalin attempted to eliminate this class.

Resistance to collectivizationPrison camps, executionsTens of millions killed

Migration to major cities12,000,000 left the countryside, mostly young

men.

Poor housing, no consumer goods, rise of the black market

Foreign responses“A New Civilization”- Fabian Socialists“ I have seen the future and its works”-

American writer Lincoln Steffens

Great PurgesTook place after the assassination of the

Politboro member Sergei KirovStalin used as an excuse to round up any

dissenters, exile them, or kill them.Millions of Russians killed.